Pimp my Pacemaker — by Bruce Robbins on April 11, 2017

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A 1990s take on the classic Speed Graphic/flash set-up with a Rolleiflex for scale. As someone with a heart arrhythmia (but no pacemaker!), ...

Clicking with the SL66E — by Bruce Robbins on April 02, 2017

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Over the last few weeks, I've been looking at lots of Michael Kenna photographs and reading the interviews he's given which are post...

It's a library, Joan, but not as I knew it... — by Bruce Robbins on March 23, 2017

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Lochee Library in the years after its opening My photographic education, such as it was, was almost entirely library-based. Throughout my li...

Russians hack The Online Darkroom — by Bruce Robbins on March 16, 2017

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I wrote in this post how I'd inadvertently missed the blog passing the one million hits mark and I've since been determined not to ...

The Fog — by Bruce Robbins on March 13, 2017

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Lochee Road What a pea-souper we had a week or so ago! Absolutely brilliant - if you like that sort of thing, which I obviously do. We'd...

Inspiration from a book — by Bruce Robbins on March 09, 2017

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A slightly battered Nikon FE and a couple of rolls of film - that's all the fun I need. Here's a humble little book that sometimes g...

Grange Orchard — by Bruce Robbins on March 01, 2017

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Do you see the sun just above the trees? That's what patience gets you. What do you mean it looks like a dust spot on the negative? So t...

Park bench — by Bruce Robbins on February 21, 2017

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Yes, you've guessed it. Another Super Ikonta shot. I've sold all my other gear and kept just the Zeiss. That last sentence wasn'...

More from the Super Ikonta — by Bruce Robbins on February 16, 2017

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What a good buy the old Zeiss Ikon is proving to be. As a walkabout camera it takes a bit of beating - fairly lightweight, compact when fold...